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Text • Matt Kamen

Gaming Can’t Afford More Games the Size of ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’

Between crushing layoffs, ballooning budgets, and bland end products, video game makers need to stop chasing AAA glory.

WIRED
Text • Miles Klee

Bud Light Boycotters Are Still Waiting for Their ‘Woke-Free’ Beer

Ultra Right Beer, a brand launched in 2023 by MAGA political consultant Seth Weathers, has vanished from the internet with many deliveries unfulfilled.

emptywheel
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Just for Clicks: How a $300,000 Alleged Bribe became a $50M Sinecure

The fight to the death between Ric Grenell and Alina Habba AKA Mildon keeps revealing unprecedented levels of corruption.

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emptywheel
Text • Ed Walker

The Why And How Of Impeachment

If we don't impeach the Roberts Majority they'll wreck any attempt at reform.

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The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Can New York Businesses Refuse the New Trump Dollar Coin?

A new dollar coin featuring President Donald Trump could soon become a political headache for some businesses, but can New York shops refuse to accept it? Continue reading…

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
Text • CJ McIntyre

Beloved Upstate New York Christmas Attraction Not Open This Year

Families hoping to make a trip to the North Pole in Upstate New York this holiday season will have to make other plans, as the longtime Christmas attraction Santa’s Workshop has announced it will remain closed for the 2026 season. Continue reading…

Schneier on Security
Text • Bruce Schneier

Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS) Archive

There’s a new archive of all the papers from twenty-five years of the Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS).

Really nice resource. It’s fun to reread my 2002 essay on the economics of information security.

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CB3 committee backs major overhaul of Tompkins Square Park recreation area

Photos by Stacie Joy Community Board 3's Parks, Recreation, Waterfront, & Resiliency Committee voted Thursday evening to support the most extensive of three proposals to renovate the recreation area in Tompkins Square Park. The committee backed Option 1, which call...

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Dreaming on Ludlow: 3 nights of shoegaze and dream pop at Pianos

The Shining Hours, from left: Kang Lee, Jonathan O'Sullivan, Joe Peters and Anya Lenee  The I Have a Dream Pop Festival comes to Pianos on Ludlow Street for three nights of shoegaze, dream pop, and experimental music, tomorrow through Saturday.  The traveli...

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Seated Female Nude, 1921 #mcescher #escher

Radar
Text • Mike Loukides

The State of AI Security: Threats, Tools, and Skills Gaps

The State of AI Security: Threats, Tools, and Skills Gaps

Artificial intelligence has changed cybersecurity permanently. While OpenAI’s inadvertent attack on Hugging Face brought AI-generated attacks to everyone’s attention, AI has been on security professionals’ radar for a long time. AI makes attacks possible at a scale that was hard to imagine a few years ago. Newly discovered zero-days can be exploited almost immediately. Deepfakes […]

WIRED
Text • Emily Mullin

OpenAI Invests in Startup That Uses Brain Implants to Detect Cancer

It’s the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data.

Paul Krugman
Text • Paul Krugman

Trump is Destroying Americans’ Healthcare

Trump is Destroying Americans’ Healthcare

Twelve million have lost coverage — and it’s getting worse

Paul Krugman
Text • Paul Krugman

In memoriam

As an American — and speaking for millions of my fellow citizens — I am deeply sorry for what is being done in my name

The City Reporter
Text • Katie Honan

Neighbors Reel After Bronx Behemoth Shutters Community Newspaper

David Greene poses with Silé Moloney on the final issue of the Norwood News outside their newsroom at the Williamsbridge Oval in The Bronx.

Neighbors stunned by the closure of a local newspaper in The Bronx are rallying behind an effort to relaunch the community mainstay, with or without help from its former owner — the borough’s largest employer. In August, the owners of the Norwood News — Mosholu Preservation Corp., an umbrella organization of Montefiore Einstein Medical Center […]

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The City Reporter
Text • Aisha Baiocchi

CUNY Expands One-Stop Shop for Help With Housing, Food Aid and Health Care

Hostos Community College was one of CUNY’s college serving The Bronx,

It was the beginning of her first year at Hostos Community College, and Shannon needed help. The Bronx mother of two was excited to be in school, but right as she started her public health classes, we was stunned by a notice alleging she owed nearly $50,000 in arrears on her apartment. Shannon, who’s been […]

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Poynter
Text • Tracey Compton

Do we really need to see mugshots in TV newscasts?

This column is part of the Indianapolis Public Editor project, a pilot program designed to test whether the presence of a public editor who analyzes local coverage can elevate audience […]

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(Podcast) Designed in California 14: Digital Hub (Part 2, Origin of the iPod)

Guiding Apple through its comeback, Steve Jobs comes up with a clever strategy to make the Mac the center of everyone’s digital life. The problem is, he’s failed to integrate music into the mix—and Apple will have to scramble to catch up.…

WIRED
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She Was the DEA’s Premier Crypto Detective. The Clues Led Straight to Her Own Family

To escape the chaos of her Russian childhood, Lili Infante became an American law enforcement prodigy. She pioneered the DEA’s investigations of the dark web—never suspecting who she’d find hiding there.

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Tunas (Still Life with Prickly Pear Fruit), 1938 #frida #naïveart